Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-01-07

show his Influence 10 the House by sup.
porting and carrying through 70 success
w. @. Burkhead for reading clerk and d.
p. julian for principal doorkeeper. These
were the regular Democratic nominees.
There was pressure on Pearson In bali an
hour sitter he had said this to support II.
NJ. Sorrell, q Republican, for clerk. Pear.
son said be would do as he liked, aud
would not vote for Sorrcll. He remarked
that he was no Republican aud under no
obligations to sorreli.
TIE NEW spEAKEE.
Mr.. Webster has clear voice and an
easy flow Of language. HIS manner Is
quite firm, and he has a great deal OF SELF
possession, as he has shown 30 FAR under
what must have been, TO any maA OF sensl-
bility, trying circumstances. He led the op-
position 10 Congressman J. W. Reid In the
Fifth district. he appears to be man OF
decided opinions on some subjects. He is
as yet, as one irate Democrat remarked last
night, IN little nervous about going the
whole hog with the Republicans"
DR.. TYRE YORK,
who was so badly beaten by Governor
scales In the contest for Governor two
years ago, Is prominent feature OF the
House, and his sardonic smile bids fair to
be another feature. lie Is great wire.
puler, and was prominent In caucuses OF
Republicans. BY the way, congressman
elect John Nichols and J. NJ. Brewer are
figuring quite prominently In these same
eaucuses, helping James +. Boyd. OF
Greensboro, and q. Young, OF Henderson,
and J. G.. l.. Harris, OF Raleigh, TO keep the
"faithful" in good order and wellin-
structed as to what they must do.
THE ArToRNEY-GESHRAL' REPORT,
made public yesterday by Mr.. Davidson, is
quite pointed. He says that there Is ne
cessity for separate courts for the trial OF
civil and criminal cases, and asserts that the
time Is near at hand when this system must
be adopted. He suggests that the change
be gradually made by the creation OF criml-
nal districts, as is now the case In New
Hanover and Meckienbuig counties. He
speaks OF the Supreme Court as heavily
handicapped with work, and says 1t
will soon be overwhelmed with busi-
ness. Only by unremittiug labor and con-
slant devotion to duty have the dockets
been thus far kept clear by the justices OF
that court. One OF two things must be
done: the membership OF the court be In
creased or its jurisdiction limited 10 Dar-
rover field. He refers to widespread COM
plant, not without foundation, OF the de-
lays, uncertainties, and expenses OF the adj
minlstratIon OF the criminal laws, saying
that in some communities It has caused the
impression that too many facilities for es-
cape are afforded the real criminal. The
present General Assembly can and should,
be says, cure many OF these defects IN the
law.
DIR. DABNEY's REPORT
as director Of the State Experiment Station
/. brief, but contains good suggestions.
Or. Dabney always says sensible things, and
saws them well. He condemns the law re-
curing poison analyses to be made at the
station, and cites the seven cases examined
in the past two years. In not one OF these was
there anything to show that chemical
analysis was necessary; yet they required,
in all, twenty-iour weeks OF work by
skilled chemist, required under the law to
be employed for that purpose. He alludes,
with great satisfaction las we'll he
may), to the success OF the State
Weather Service, so recently established,
so complete, so popular, and so useful. He
refers to the also neutrality-suspicious. ex-
detrimental farm, and says that 1t Is 10 be
strictly scientific station, and not "m0del
farmv Not dollar will be spent for mere
ornament or show. Speaking OF the analy-
sis OF fertilizers, special object OF the
stations work, he says that from 1880 TO
1856 the actual cash price for fertilizers paid
by North Carolina farmers decreased % per
cent, while the quality or grade increased
IA per cent. This mems that North Caro-
lima formers could get I'm 1886 for S3.000,-
900 what they had TO pay =, 900 for in
1SS0-and yet get better article.